Identifier: bibleprimeroldte00hult (find matches)
Title: Bible primer, Old Testament, for use in the primary department of Sunday schools
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Hult, Adolf, 1869-1943 Augustana synod. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Rock Island, Ill., Augustana book concern
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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dly family in the world? Only one, Noahand his family. Noah had the good Seth as one of his fore-fathers. One day God said to Noah: Build yourself a large boat,an ark. Make it water-tight. I mean to send a flood on theearth. Noah made the ark. He took his family and manykinds of animals and went into it. Noah found grace in theeyes of the Lord. That is, God wanted to save Noah. The flood came, as God said. All Gods words come true. Forty days and nights it rained. All the earth was cov-ered with water and the people drowned. Only Noah andhis family were safe. They had listened to Gods words.After a while the earth dried off. Then Noah sent out adove. She came back with a fresh olive leaf in her mouth.What did that mean? That the waters were gone. ThenNoah sent the dove out once more. She never came back. And God told Noah and his wife and his three sons andtheir wives to go forth from the ark. And they did so. They must have been happy that God had saved them fromthe flood. Gen. 7, 8.
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BIBLE PRIMER 17 6. NOAHS OFFERING AND THE BOW OF PROMISE. What did Noah do, when he came from the ark? The firstthing he did was to build an altar. He offered some animalson it. See, how he and all his family kneel and pray to God!With all his heart Noah thanked the dear God for savinghim, his wife and children, and the many animals God hadtold them to take into the ark, too. It pleased God that Noah prayed to Him. So God blessedNoah and his family. He made them into a great peoplethat filled the earth. He blessed the ground, also, that itshould be fruitful. Was that all God did? No, He made a covenant with Noah. That means, Hepromised to be Noahs God, to help, save, and bless him. DidHe promise more? He said: Never again shall there besuch a flood to destroy the earth. God was anxious that Noah should remember and believethis promise, or covenant. So He said to Noah: I do setthe rainbow in the clouds. And I will look on the rainbowand remember My promise nevermore to send such a floo

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